Benjamin Mako Hill🦈
@makoshark
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I'm a rebel with rather too many causes. Guilty by association with @UW, @UWComm, @BKCHarvard, @Wikipedia, @Debian, @Ubuntu, more. Fediverse @[email protected]
Seattle, WA
Joined June 2007
I'll be at #ICA25 in support of a bunch of great work being presented by students. LMK if you'll be around!.
If you're in Denver for the International Communication Association's annual meeting, see work by and connect with @comdatasci people. @yibinfan_com, Dyuti, @makosharkattack, @jdfoote, and Haomin are all around! #ICA25
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If you can't attend, there's also information on how to sign up for future events and/or get information about the recordings when those are done.
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Last chance to register for this awesome public event on online governance that my research group (@comdatasci) is organizing tomorrow as part of our Science of Community Dialogues series.
We're hosting another Community Dialogue discussing the Role of Community Governance with.@zkharazian and @PaulGowder on April 4th @ 12pm CT! You can learn more and register here:
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My current playlist is this diorama of Lulu the Piggy channeling Tupac Shakur in a toy vending machine in the basement of New World Mall in Flushing Chinatown.
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While in Tokyo, nutritional epidemiologist @epimika realizes that "if I am what I eat. " The situation in Seoul is similar, albeit less fried and more confident.
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RT @comdatasci: Come see the collective present our work at @ACM_CSCW in Costa Rica this week! There will be prese….
blog.communitydata.science
If you are attending the ACM conference on Computer-supported Cooperative Work and Social Computing (CSCW) this year CSCW in San José, Costa Rica. You are warmly invited to join CDSC members during…
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RT @jdfoote: A few weeks ago we had our lab retreat at Purdue and organized a public-facing symposium. It was great! We had panels and pres….
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My research group (@comdatasci) will host a public/free workshop on research into online community governance as part of our Science of Community Dialogue Series: (register at the link!). Talks by @enfascination and (our own) @sohwng. Anyone is welcome!
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I realize that because I have several chairs, the phrase "my chair" is ambiguous. To reduce confusion, I will refer to the head of my academic department as "my office chair" going forward.
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"If you'd like to be even more confused, click here!" (source:
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My research group (@comdatasci) is organizing a "Science of Community" track again at FOSSY ( in Portland, OR (August 1-4) for #freesoftware and #opensource researchers and practitioners to connect! Please consider submitting!
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I'm at the @UniLeipzig for the week as a visiting fellow visiting Christian Penztold's group. It's a work sprint, but I might have some time tomorrow, so LMK if you're around.
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RT @random_walker: Are you a professor with a sabbatical coming up? Do you work at the intersection of tech & society? Come spend a year at….
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RT @comdatasci: Are you thinking about a PhD studying online communities, peer production, and learning and collaboration in social computi….
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Actually the thread already posted by the group account (@comdatasci) here:
Are you thinking about a PhD studying online communities, peer production, and learning and collaboration in social computing systems using social science methods? Join us to talk about opportunities at the CDSC on October 20.
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My research group is holding an open house and Q&A for prospective PhD students a week from today. You should join us! More details are at this link ( and in the thread below.
blog.communitydata.science
It’s Ph.D. application season and the Community Data Science Collective is recruiting! As always, we are looking for talented people to join our research group. Applying to one of the Ph.D. program…
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RT @comdatasci: If you missed @makoshark and @tilmanbayer's summary of the last year in academic @Wikimedia research at #wikimania2023 last….
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Wikimania, the annual global conference of the Wikimedia movement, took place in Singapore last month. For the first time since 2019, the conference was held in person again. It was attended by ove…
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Abbott should have a deferred payment plan for its COVID tests and call it BinaxNOW™ PaynaxLATER™.
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RT @PrincetonCITP: In today's @PrincetonCITP newsletter, a welcome from Director @random_walker, and meet new fellows @dcalacci, @rcalo, @m….
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Wrapped up an awesome first day at @PrincetonCITP where I'm honored to be part of an awesome class of fellows for 23-24 (w/ @alicetiara as you can see). Excited to be back on the east coast for the year and to (re)connecting after yrs away. Let's organize something! #sabbatical
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